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action movie |
a film whose story line focuses on conflict and fast-paced activity, esp. involving physical violence, feats of strength and agility, and chase scenes. |
aggression |
The use of force or violence against another in order to dominate or achieve one's own goals. [1/2 definitions] |
anarchism |
the practice, employed by some anarchists, of resistance to or violence against government. [1/2 definitions] |
antiviolence |
combined form of violence. |
assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
assault and battery |
in law, the act of, and charge against, an offender who threatens and carries out the threat to attack or do other physical violence to another. |
attempt |
an act of violence. [1/3 definitions] |
beating |
severe physical violence done as punishment or during a confrontation, usu. with blows from fists or a blunt instrument. [1/3 definitions] |
bloodlust |
a strong desire for the use of violence towards others. |
bloodshed |
the spilling of blood through injury or violence. |
bloody |
disposed to do violence. [1/4 definitions] |
body part |
a piece of the human body that has been detached, as by surgery or violence. [1/2 definitions] |
Civil Rights Movement |
a movement in the United States particularly prominent during the 1950s and 1960s that sought to end racial discrimination, legal segregation of blacks and whites, and racial barriers to voting. The movement was led by black leaders such as Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and James Farmer. It mobilized tens of thousands of African Americans in protest against existing laws and practices. Activists, both black and white, endured harassment and violence from the police and others as the movement progressed. Eventually, the American civil rights movement brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and other measures. [1/2 definitions] |
counterviolence |
combined form of violence. |
cow2 |
to scare or intimidate with threats, violence, or the like. |
doomscrolling |
the practice of sifting through online news stories and consuming excessively large amounts of news depicting violence, corruption, or devastation. |
feud |
a deep, long-lasting hostility, esp. between families or other related groups, and sometimes with outbreaks of violence. [1/3 definitions] |
force |
in law, illegal violence, as against a person. [1/14 definitions] |
forcible |
achieved through force or violence. [1/3 definitions] |
foul play |
treacherous action, esp. violence against a person or persons. |
Freedom Rider |
any of the American civil rights activists who participated in the Freedom Rides, which highlighted and challenged racial discrimination in the United States in the early 1960s. Freedom Riders made bus trips through southern states, demonstrating that public facilities that should have been desegregated according to law were not in fact desegregated. Freedom Riders encountered intense violence along their journeys and many suffered arrest by the police. |
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